Government had no choice but to increase teachers’ salary: MDP
20 Jan 2015, 12:30 PM
Ismail Humaam Hamid
The opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has said today that the government decided to increase teachers’ salaries only because it was left with no other choice.
Speaking to the press today, the chair of the MDP’s education and training committee, former education minister Dr Musthafa Luthufee, said that the government had no intention of increasing teachers’ salary until the end of 2014.
“It was not included in the budget, and teachers demonstrated and threatened to strike. The salary increment was announced after even the government started providing wages for athletes,” said Luthufee.
The Ministry of Education announced the salary increases earlier this month, with some teachers’ pay jumping by up to 35 percent.
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